Madelyn Cline lets out a scream in I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel image

There’s a new sequel to the 1997 slasher I Know What You Did Last Summer (watch it HERE) and its 1998 follow-up I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (watch that one HERE) coming our way from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge), aiming for a July 18 theatrical release. We should be seeing a trailer for this one very soon (in fact, a trailer was already shown at the CinemaCon event last week) – but while we wait, Collider has just unveiled a new image. You can check it out at the bottom of this article.

Robinson is directing the film from a screenplay by Leah McKendrick (M.F.A.), which has received some rewrites from Robinson and journalist Sam Lansky. McKendrick told Collider a while back that the new sequel will reckon with “some big ideas about hero and villain, right and wrong, how your skeletons come back to haunt you. And in the age of the internet and the age where fame is such a revered concept, the creation of TikTok and social media, who is Julie James in a world where there are no secrets anymore?“ McKendrick also said that when she went in to pitch her take to Sony, the most important things they wanted to hear about were “the accident, the event that kicks it off, and who the killer is.“

Here’s the new sequel’s synopsis: When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer… and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.

This I Know What You Did Last Summer stars Madelyn Cline (Outer Banks), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid), Tyriq Withers (Atlanta), Sarah Pidgeon (Tiny Beautiful Things), Billy Campbell (The Rocketeer), model / musician Gabbriette Bechtel (making her feature film acting debut), Austin Nichols (The Day After Tomorrow), Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty), and Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story), with Jennifer Love Hewitt, who played heroine Julie James in the first two films, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who was Julie’s boyfriend Ray Bronson in those films, reprising their roles. As you can tell from the synopsis, they are not the leads this time around. 

JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray saw the trailer at CinemaCon and reports that the movie “Looks very gory – more than the others. The trailer starts with a brutal kill as Madelyn Cline’s character relaxes in a bath unawares. As the killings start, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt come forward to help, with Hewitt telling Cline, ‘I only have one question: what did you do last summer?“ Robinson also used the word “brutal” while talking to Collider, saying, “I can’t tell you anything about the Fisherman! That ruins all the fun! I guess I can tell you one thing — this time, The Fisherman is a lot more brutal.” She said something similar to People: “It is not a serious movie. It is a really fun, popcorn summer event,” and yet, the horror is “ratcheted up to a hundred in this — it’s much more brutal.“

Are you looking forward to this new, more brutal I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel? Take a look at the image below, then let us know by leaving a comment below.

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